All Joseph Campbell Quotes
- Myths are the world's dreams. They are archetypal dreams and deal with great human problems. Myths and dreams come from the same place. They come… Archetypal
- The object becomes aesthetically significant when it becomes metaphysically significant. Aesthetically
- The hero journey is inside of you; tear off the veils and open the mystery of your self. Hero
- Poets and artists who speak of the mystery are rare. Artist
- When your mind is simply trapped by the image out there so that you never make the reference to yourself, you have misread the image. Image
- The idea of the Bodhisattva is the one who out of his realization of transcendence participates in the world. The imitation of Christ is joyful… Bodhisattva
- It [music] has an awakening function. Life is a rhythm. Art is an organization of rhythms. Music is a fundamental art that touches our will… Art
- For people who are really alive to have life awakened is more important than to get a sandwich. Alive
- Your ego is your embodiment and your self is your potentiality and that's what you listen to when you listen for the voice of inspiration… Ego
- Art is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement. Art
- Where is your bliss station? You have to try to find it. Bliss
- In one of the Upanishads it says, when the glow of a sunset holds you and you say 'Aha,' that is the recognition of the… All
- If you do follow your bliss you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and… Actualization
- Where you stumble and fall, there you will find gold. Fall
- Gods suppressed become devils, and often it is these devils whom we first encounter when we turn inward. Become Devils
- People say that what we’re all seeking is a meaning for life. I don’t think that’s what we’re really seeking. I think that what we’re… Actually Feel
- Instead of clearing his own heart the zealot tries to clear the world. Clear
- If you can see your path laid out in front of you step by step, you know it's not your path. Your own path you… Beautiful
- For we have not even to risk the adventure alone, for the heros of all time have gone before us... Adventure
- How teach again, however, what has been taught correctly and incorrectly learned a thousand thousand times, throughout the millenniums of mankind's prudent folly? That is… Been
- Wherever the poetry of myth is interpreted as biography, history, or science, it is killed. Biographies
- But the makers of legend have seldom rested content to regard the world's great heroes as mere human beings who broke past the horizons that… Any
- Furthermore, we have not even to risk the adventure alone; for the heroes of all time have gone before us, the labyrinth is fully known;… Abomination
- Life is like arriving late for a movie, having to figure out what was going on without bothering everybody with a lot of questions, and… Arriving
- Half the people in the world think that the metaphors of their religious traditions, for example, are facts. And the other half contends that they… Accept